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GI Jack

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Registered: 2010-12-29

Posts: 92

multiple drivers with Xorg on a LiveCD, need them all to work

I'm rolling a live-cd with larch, and the biggest problem I have right now is drivers for Xwindows. Booting without chaning the config, xorg finds no screens and shits itself. The CD can make no assumptions about the hardware of the system used, so I included several drivers(intel, ati, noveau, i128,i740, and vesa of coruse).

I've gotten this all to work my making /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf
with just using the vesa driver.:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Device0"
    Driver        "vesa" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Screen0"  #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
    Device        "Device0"
    Monitor       "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth  16 #Choose the depth (16||24)
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     16
        Modes      "1024x768"  #Choose the resolution
    EndSubSection
EndSection

VESA is a pretty crappy driver, and I'd like the CD to probe for a driver, and automaticly use what it finds.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: multiple drivers with Xorg on a LiveCD, need them all to work

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112409